Neil lawrence, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. It s a great pleasure to have you. Now, you are a computer scientist, but it seems to me, as you ve journeyed deep into the potentiality of artificial intelligence, you ve also thought a great deal about human intelligence and what is so very special and unique about us humans. Can you try to put that into words? yeah, i think, for me, what we ve seen with a lot of the artificial intelligence debate has been a sort of naturally narcissistic in tendency to think about our intelligence. And what i think it does is offers the opportunity to introspect about our intelligence, to stand in a different place, to look at a different type of information processing, that that s done by a computer, and use our understanding of that, which we built and created, so we understand it, to look back and think about what s special about us. Is intelligence the right word to use when it comes to discussing what machines can do in this
And the deal is worth over 44 billion in stock it combines two of the largest providers to wall street and so far 2020s largest dollar wise deal plus, youve seen it on squawk box gm and nikola announce a smaller deal on fuel cell systems doesnt involve equity and well get to more of it why those shares are down so sharply by the way, jim, great to have you back. A lot to catch up on that we missed talking with you about over the last few days as for moderna, another monday here, jim, with 100 on severe and more discussion that come spring we may have nearly ten of these things to choose from. A remarkable moment because it is true this is warp speed and warp speed is run by the army and going to go to longterm care facilities at the same time it is going to go to Health Care Workers and i think the good news here is it will go to a lot of people that no one thought they could get to very early you shotgun the entire level of when you include modrna and dont even talk about j j i think
World . And another heatwave in the northwest. Wildfires continue to rage in california and colorado. How technology can battle the blaze. But first, stocks ending the week mixed. We saw a tech slide. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the divide still persisting in stimulus talks with the white house. Lets get the latest from bloombergs abigail doolittle. Abigail another bumpy one. Had decentay we gains for stocks. Options Expiration Date tends to bring volatility. We saw that into the close. Often you have traders that need to hedge on different positions around the options to the underlying security. The nasdaq 100 earlier today up pretty sharply, then closing down about 4 10 of 1 . A bit of a bearish reversal for the nasdaq 100. One of the big drags was amazon giving up big gains on the day. Ay may not have been as inspired as it was last year. Something we talked about earlier this week, since the stock was down both days of the event. Traders for whatever reason, you will see that
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